President Obama's new health care system (if it comes) is doomed to failure at huge expense, personal-
healthwise and economically to the country . . . as we mentioned in Rants #4 and #5, there are four main
reasons why:
A. Government spending programs seldom work.
B. The two earlier programs, Medicare and Medicaid, did not help and only made health and cost trends
already in place much worse.
C. And mostly because, the President is NOT expected to address FDA re-organization or clean up in his
new program: huge mistake, HUGE!
D. Additionally, as far as is known, the President is not expected to address a single one of the points
brought up by health educator Rajjpuut in his blog series “A Far Better Health Care Alternative.”
As shown clearly in Rant #5, American medical scientists have time and time again concluded
research underlining that there is absolutely NO need for new drugs that mask pain but do not help cure the
underlying problems. The problem has been made infinitely worse because now drug companies are allowed to
legally "bribe"** the FDA to rush their newest dangerous concoctions right out into the marketplace and FDA
philosophy has deteriorated since 1990. In that year, 58% of the drugs studied were approved; today about
83% of studied drugs are approved. In 1990 only 5% of the brand new to the world drugs were approved; today
2/3 of these brand new drugs never before used in any other country now receive FDA approval: an anguishing
1300% rise in approval of untested drugs. The combination of rapid (bribed) approval; loose overall
approval habits and ultra-loose sanctions on brand-new drugs has made the American health scene a dangerous
place for patients when given an Rx from their doctor.
The FDA seems to go out of its way to protect the drug companies from potentially healthier, less
expensive, and less dangerous competitors. Why else would the FDA have issued several statements at various
times in their history that "no supplement has ever been proven to cure any disease or heal any medical
condition." Amazing that they've never heard of Vitamin C and scurvy; of Linus Pauling's Nobel Prize; or
Louis Ignarro's Nobel Prize.
Even though there are virtually no instances of medical PROBLEMS caused by nutrients (vitamins,
minerals, etc.) when taken in recommended dosages but combined millions of DEATHS, DEFORMITIES, illnesses
and INJURIES caused by "proper" dosages of prescription medicines . . . nevertheless, the FDA has attacked
natural ingredients and natural nutrients producers and stores with an incredible vehemence especially,
it seems, nutrients which have performed very well in scientific studies such as DHEA, DMSO, hydrogen
peroxide and food grade hydrogen peroxide. Natural ingredients being far less expensive, and having no
side effects for people not allergic to them are serious rivals to drugs. The drug companies have no
motivation, for their part, to feature any "natural ingredient" because no natural ingredients are
patentable.
The FDA seemingly attacks all enemies or competitors of the big pharmaceutical companies: vitamin
stores; doctors who routinely prescribe vitamin or nutrient regimens; natural whole-grain diet breads and
diet cereals; homemade diet soups, etc., etc., much more eagerly than it applies pressure to the drug
companies themselves. Where are the deaths? deformities, illnesses and injuries that justify that kind
of scrutiny? Why don't they do the math and do their jobs instead and protect Americans from the
irresponsible drug companies? I think the folks who created the FDA in 1906 must be rolling over in their
graves seeing the Frankenstein monster their once great agency has degenerated into. If for no other reason,
the number of iatrogenic deaths, deformities, injuries and illnesses today's drugs have visited upon the
unsuspecting American public give them sufficient excuse to continue rolling around in those graves for the
next 100 years.
At the FDA they’ve long forgotten it’s the public health they’re in the business of protecting;
and the public they’re supposed to be serving but the President, congress, and the American Public needs to
remember that key fact RIGHT NOW! The first necessary step in any health care change is to UNDO, REDO and
UNcorrupt the FDA.
Live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** the correct term is "bribe" but the FDA calls them "expedited evaluations" or "expedited reviews"
Regular readers of Rajjpuut’s little rants will recognize a strong personal antipathy toward the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). That once great organization created in 1906, the very year that Upton Sinclair’s monumental novel/expose` “The Jungle” hit the bookstore shelves, has degenerated into the most corrupt federal organization in America. Rajjpuut, health educator he, believes that only a complete top-to-bottom remake of the FDA will allow any health care plan, now or in the future, any hope of success.